you mean this is put a no fly zone in this soil despoiled say u.n. resolution and opposition from locals don't you bushell details from brussels. discussions about what to do with the levy are hard to avoid at the us vice president meets russian leaders in most case when another top picks discuss joe biden hopes to woo support for possible american military involvement more is coming up in just a few minutes. and congressional hearings on the radicalization of america's muslims prepare to start look at what lies behind it and the fears that it's a little more than

a rule that's just which one. coming to you live from our studios in moscow you're watching our teeth thanks for joining us well there is mounting pressure for action in libya after fresh clashes between rebels and the government well shelling and airstrikes from colonel gadhafi supporters have pushed the opposition back more than a thousand people are thought to have died since the uprising broke out almost a month ago locos locals are still united in their determination to keep out foreign intervention later on thursday nato defense officials and e.u. foreign ministers will meet in brussels to discuss what moves they could make or correspondent daniel bushell is there right now for us all down over the question everyone's mind is what's likely to come from to base meeting. well nato defense

ministers here in brussels are meeting to decide on any course of action be military humanitarian the u.s. defense secretary robert gates is also here in brussels and he will brief officials and colleagues on how he sees action should be taken on wednesday a top pentagon official said that any action in libya should be taken under the umbrella of nato that's america's position as it stands and britain and france are discussing i'm trying to get a resolution a common front on imposing a no fly zone across the libyan airspace. on the premise of a humanitarian support for the country i spoke to russia's military records in and here's what he had to say about the situation. it's like in russian classical theater even the first act of performance there's a gun on the wall it's you to shoot in the second and you can militia off weapon

some military forces in the region could lead to war and that's why pumping up history and may reach the point of no return when it becomes hard to explain why it was necessary to militarize citizens for months there's a real danger in using missiles against libyan air bases to deprive gadhafi he's advantages no legal heard of street then there will be attempts to legitimize the rebels to make it seem to the outside power has powers from khadafi to the rebels. well there is the issue of the no fly zone but there's also no un resolution yet on foreign nations getting involved in in other ways or has any anyone from nato or the e.u. address this issue of involvement. years there is no common front let alone between . countries even within the nato alliance there's several disagreements pretty openly last night britain's foreign secretary former minister if you like william hague admitted that opposition is hardening to the intervention of foreign forces

he said that they still need to go on the international support for any move and that international support is not there at the moment italy considered one of libya's closest allies of course former colony of italy says that the gadhafi regime needs more breathing space it really needs to be given time and discussion in the go she should be exhausted all such options should be exhausted before any military action takes place ok well looking on the other side do we know what colonel get up his reaction to all of this. yes the country's leader curva gadhafi has come out very strongly saying that the libyan people will oppose any military intervention by foreign forces he said the libyan people would rise up as one against any such fractions he said himself that his forces would respond strongly to any such imposition of a no fly zone let alone any military measures and it came as he bombed all tanks in

the in the country of course libya is a norwich country and the current crisis has led to strong heightening of oil prices which of course is having a damaging effect on the world economy let's listen to what russia's envoy had to say on the issue of the situation on the ground in libya. systems and of course we've noted that in the recent situation in the middle east and north africa social networks are actively used for organizing rebellious anti government movements i'm sure there is a mastermind behind it first of all reports from all major t.v. companies who are all information sources in libya contain many words but no food which secondly views are definitely proportionate those for gadhafi and narrowly presented well the protesters are widely represented that's how partly could be and is being filmed. well thanks very much danielle for that update our teams daniel

bushell reporting from brussels. well as the uncertainty over their future remains the libyans continue filling the streets to try and overthrow colonel gadhafi but after weeks of fighting and bloodshed many are lost as to how to achieve as artie's a clown a boy who reports the life of controlling the country that was stating a long term effects. after deliberation chance the rattle of kalashnikovs is the most common sound in the. ever since ravel seized weapons depots in eastern libya rifles became the ultimate symbol of masculinity that every young man in the city once one thing in common between more market are free and it forced the struggling town c.p.m. is a fascination with the arms believe in leader he developed a liking for kalashnikov rifles so much so that he even had any case forty seven of munition plants built here in libya and the rounds of these plants produced an hour

failing all across eastern libya on the frontlines and beyond youngman with my friends have become a fixture on the streets of benghazi they're eager to show them off and often slap happy in their handling of the arms can a soldier from the been there as a garrison who joined our freising says many of these fellows rebels don't have any experience with arms but he says is made up by their passionate determination to the. point since he lost bullets to the last drop of blood god is on. this you've been ghazi is still living off of the revolutionary fever from dusk till dawn people congregate on the city's main square calling for gadhafi to go most of the factories are closed the only people still working a shop owners fear is good no good. many people know people and public servants like these traffic police officers despite the loss of. control

over is to leave here because the government continues to pay salaries to those employed by the state of the yes i received my last paycheck about ten days ago but that is nothing to thank you duffy for my salary is just two hundred fifty dinars with can barely support my family agitation and certainty of the last few weeks are already exerting their toll on public health been gazi psychiatric hospital is now flooded with patients because preexisting conditions were exacerbated by their unrest now days because of the people uprising and lots of people there is suffering from the so called burning shoulders. some of our patients also having relapses from their previous mental problems now because of the. uprising of because of the shooting. hated and ridiculed doubtingly being the most valuable asset for the opposition

movement as that hatred pulls people together for the time being if united's those who spent years serving in his government and the victims of his persecution yet their chance for free libya by yet to be augmented by a clear vision of how to achieve it it is very hard to try to determine who could be the real charismatic leader the real strong structure that could come in on the ground or you could say well i am well known by the medians i have a program of some horizons and i will be able to achieve or to be the alternative between again or that will help achieve better perspectives and a better horizon in media people in bin ghazi are now leaving all their savings sharing whatever little they have most of them are confident that once you get out that leaves the bright future will dawn on them but if past revolutions are

anything to go by. the abundance of arms and hordes of idly roaming man could mean exactly the opposite. of what r.t.e. been gazi. independent journalist keith harmon snow says the u.s. is pumping out and to get off the propaganda to foster support for what he calls america's oil operation in libya. what we're getting is a pro u.s. program to be on one side picture of the situation which kills the media with the idea that there's freedom fighters involved in the area and then there is a government regime that's been in atrocious terrorist government for the last since one nine hundred seventy roughly this is nonsense and we knew it was an established government whether we like them or not just is north korea and iran are established governments when we like him or not or the sunni in government and what's happening against him is a war of aggression we are serving one side to portray the idea that gadhafi is the chair is to all these people have been killed and three in fighters involved

freedom fighter language freedom fighter hasn't been used since the attacks against the by the contras against the garage in one thousand a.d. in it so it's a nasty war operations been going on with the support of the involvement of evenly france and britain since one thousand nine hundred seventy since nine hundred fifty nine when he was the discovery and the u.s. hasn't had a piece of that part so the idea is to convince you continue to convince the american public that genocide is happening in libya which is absolute nonsense and therefore we need to take it you know the all powerful white american role is to go out there and save somebody that needs saving when they actually were involved in the killing because we're i believe we're supporting the rebels in libya well later this hour a former british ambassador to libya talks to r.t. all of our miles tells us that reading of the stories coming from libya don't ring true with the real situation and the talk of a no fly zone is premature or hear some of what we'll hear later. right from the beginning of the conflict from the stories of attacks civilian population i don't

know of a single authentication case i think we've all probably had the experience myself. correspondents are telephoning anyone they can find in libya and the story you get from everybody is all right here where i am goes from shooting and it sounds nasty but i'm not going outside to look and yes i have heard stories of this but none of them in my area but it seems to be the drug. picture so i don't believe it really i think is just proportion for the moment to talk about literature. all the subject of international involvement in libya is going to be tough to avoid for the u.s. vice president who is on a two day visit today's visit to moscow joe biden is likely to seek kremlin support on possible moves and he's also due to meet a prime minister vladimir putin in just a few hours well you've got trouble is following his visit for r.t. good morning to you about going into this meeting can you just remind us where

russia stands on libya and what exactly does washington expect from the kremlin. good morning tara so well washington is seeking russia's support for possible military action in libya russia has a veto on the u.n. . security council so without russia saying yes to the plan to impose a no fly zone over these country it could not be enforced and the u.s. of course is well aware of that so believe it was the top be hard to avoid cheering joseph biden stalks the russian president on one state well russia strongly opposes the plan to impose a no fly zone over libya which would mean that any plane taking off could be shut down and that would also mean that anti aircraft systems of libya would be neutralized to make it safe for nato to patrol the skies over russia stan says that no international intervention is possible when it comes to libya's domestic affairs so it will be interesting to see what the outcome will be of those talks and how

they could inflows the u.s. further steps when it comes to the crisis see in north arab world and in the middle east ok well it has to be said that this is a long planned visit so what else is joe biden hoping to achieve. on the second day of his visit joe biden will be holding separate meetings with civil society activists and with us. opposition leaders and the names of those leaders were not disclosed by the white house which gave ground to some speculations that the u.s. is trying to get its hand into russia systematic affairs a year before the presidential election in this country to put the speculation aside it seems that the visit is a sign that joseph biden and the russian leaders are trying to expand into new dimensions all reside with a particular focus on the economic piece on one stage joseph biden together we the

u.s. business representatives visit skolkovo couric but this is the russian version the future russian version of the silicone valley and there he blasted president woodbury of school during ization mission. well actually the current trade turnover between america and russia stands at a at extremely low level trade turnover with the u.s. last year of was less than four percent this is of course we beyond the possible potential between these two countries and this was of course discussed yesterday as well. well then of course w t o russia's sort accession to w t o four for a decade and a half now this is way more than any other member of these organizations and we're trying to get if even joked that he hoped that before joseph biden and his career this would happen that russia was the world trade organization. ok well thank you very much for that update it got to be no go to work for us there. well as stay in

touch around the clock online at r.t. dot com and here is what some long good news and analysis on the web site right now check out these in heels of fortune with our remitting rider who takes to moscow's retro car museum. and discover how chechen is a team that i got on when they came up against brazilian football legends from the past and present when they came to the russian republic for eight friendly match. well hearings will soon get underway and u.s. congress over the radicalization of american muslims well they're being led by homeland security chairman peter king who says they're vital to protect the country but critics say there are disturbing parallel sort of america's notorious political witch hunts archy's killing for reports.

half a decade ago during america's second red scare this was the accusation to answer your head right out of the normal today it's this one muslim leaders are not doing enough to cooperate with law enforcement there's actually been instances of you moms instructing the people in their mosques not to cooperate with law enforcement accusations of disloyalty subversion treason made now by some pundits girl wonder of radical islam this is like the neighborhood you live in and the monterey operates there are but by the chairman of the congressional homeland security committee republican pete king who is launching his highly publicized hearings on the radicalization as muslims in america we know how evil is enemy is and we have to confront it and to me it's offensive to all muslims when we don't figure out islamic terrorists it's almost as if we are afraid to insult muslims because we're

targeting the terrorists through their moves but king business is the critics who say the hearings unfairly single out muslims ever say any of these criticisms seriously because they're just meijer liberal left wing reaction is the politically correct establishment despite criticism from the right and the left at the mere announcement of the hearings king says he won't back down going to name those names we're going to have expert witnesses and we'll do what we have to do which worries critics like history professor alan trekker we've always had our scapegoats today it's muslims in the nineteen fifties it was communists they said. congressman from new york is following in the footsteps of the senator from wisconsin joseph mccarthy focusing on people's associations in this case religious rather than political but calling them. in public and exposing them

to some kind of sanctions whether it's just e-mails whether it is dismissals are workplace sanctions. so that despite muslim leaders cooperation with the f.b.i. they're continuously viewed as the enemy especially since the end of the cold war the worse thrives on war and it throws comfort for. peace so we become. the new carmen is according to a department of homeland security said he islamic extremists are seen as a threat in thirty one states while neo nazi and white supremacist cells groups left out of king's homeland security hearings are seen as a threat in all but four when we talk about terrorism in the united states what who have been the terrorists you know poor pathetic nut in arizona timothy

mcveigh in oklahoma city these are the people who are killing americans and. muslims for critics on the right and the labs the echoes of mccarthyism are troubling last month king also introduced the see something say something pounds designed to prevent citizens from lawsuits when they report suspicious activity but critics say it amounts to little more than informing on each other much as they did during mccarthyism and the cold war killing ford r t. washington d.c. i'll see mosher lani who's a muslim american doctor and journalist says the bee uys is witnessing people being singled out just for their religion. it is a very disturbing time in america when we are singling out a group of people based on their religion or their ethnicity or their race which is certainly what is happening here. kenya holds for hearings to investigate the radicalization of american homegrown terrorism in regards to muslim americans i

would ask i would agree that there is a problem in terms of terrorism and violence in this country but i would just ask why are muslim americans being singled out certainly there are many others here is so different ethnicities that race and religions that have contributed to the escalating violence in this country i find that i have heard it is very disturbing to me my my parents came to this country as immigrants in has a better life which i hope i have secured here well we are becoming is somewhat country and nation who finds it acceptable to put people on trial for their religion and to put people on trial for what they believe that is completely antithetical to anything that i believe in and furthermore i think i would think of the way we were having this conversation ten or fifteen years ago i don't think that everybody would call a spade a spade and call this bigotry i'm an american citizen i was born in this country

and the america that i feel so strongly for and love would not single out a group of people based on their religion. well some other international news in brief for you this hour mourners in northwest pakistan have been a target of a taliban revenge attack thirty six are driven more than a hundred wounded a teenage suicide bomber disguised. himself off as a crowd of mainly taliban militia men were getting ready to pray oh it's the attack was in retaliation for local tribal support for government security forces. britain's foreign secretary has condemned terrorism after u.k. and nato forces seized iranian weapons which they say were heading for the taliban in afghanistan william hague believes the arms were clearly intended for insurgents to kill afghan and international troops from a significant range or iran that denies it's behind the shipment of forty eight rockets and other arab nations that were recovered after a firefight which saw

a number of insurgents killed. discovery has ended her twenty seven year flying career as the world's most traveled spaceship with a final smooth touchdown at the kennedy space center the shuttle's last mission was to carry out maintenance on the international space station well it's now retirement for the orbiting a work worst and the next stop is the smithsonian museum discovery sister ships and ever and atlantis will also be retired later this year and really an end to nasa shuttle program. later today would take some time out for a trip to the picturesque landscape of the north caucasus. and discovery. communicating with you want to. test yourself and become free.

to. see what nature can give you on oxy. i'll be back with the headlines shortly but first kareen is here with all the latest business news. business is here in ninety thanks for watching your biz central bank could be making a grave mistake by tightening its not policy in the eyes of the tories economists known as dr doom roubini claims high interest rates may seriously hit the. countries who are struggling to restore their export competitiveness but the chief economist from russia's investment bank says he has no other option when central banks do not take action in global inflation and perhaps in domestic inflation in many areas including russia starts to get out of control and then we

have a very very difficult situation where and central banks will have no option but to increase rates by signature comes a moment in which definitely would push many economists toward standstill because the cost of crude of the cost of money would increase and that would be. from the point of fuel for carver. take a look at the markets and most asian stock markets trade long thursday with investors concerned about the escalating libya and saying is down more than half a percent while the nikkei said nearly one in the hot side exporters are in the gregg would sony down point eight percent if you are losing around two percent here in russia markets finished wednesday's trading session in the red let's look at some individual banks were on the rise supported by positive results from bank of america is burbank gained around. added seven point seven percent

lower the futures weighed on metal stocks with dollars twenty two sharing over three quarters of a percent and preferred shares gained eleven percent of the session. investors should be on the lookout for a head of equity trading at capital. for global markets the market will still be preserved. or thought will supply disruptions higher oil prices stronger ruble and higher valuations for russian stocks and i think one of their stocks will be resilient to any correction when i see. a correction i think is looming in the developed world given the higher rates and inflation are concerned for global. sales of new cars and light trucks and by eighty percent in five euro compared to the same period of last year this is he asian of european business is calculated that seventy three thousand vehicles were sold but as large

it is the top. extended cash for clunkers program. analysts expect the market to pre-crisis levels in two thousand and thirteen after a slump in two thousand and nine. so for now i don't mean just under one.

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